Anderson Cooper will leave the CBS News program 60 Minutes after nearly two decades, he said on Monday, in the latest staffing shake-up to hit the storied news magazine amid broader newsroom changes under the new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss. “Being a correspondent at 60 Minutes has been one of the great honors of my career. Cooper, who hosts his own show on CNN, has also been a 60 Minutes correspondent for CBS through a deal between the two networks since the 2006-2007 season. Cooper joined CNN in 2001 and has reported on the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Lachlan Cartwright’s Breaker newsletter first reported Cooper’s impending departure from 60 Minutes.

Source: CNN February 17, 2026 18:57 UTC